Lunatic RavingsBy Stephen Johnson |
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| Sunday, February 26, 2006 More Pieces Adding Up To Four The Devin Townsend Band---"Synchestra" MoTW---"Cat Ballou" And so it continues with the hope that my issues and pains help someone somewhere.... The whole problem with vengeance was finding the right vengeance to prove my point about something to my parents. I first thought about running away, figuring they would worry enough to break down in tears and beg for my return. Then I remembered the last time I ran away......... I had fucked up something and figured that living on the streets of our Leave it to Beaver-like hood would be much better than facing the wrath of pops. So I got on my Schwinn Varsity and took off to the one place I would feel safe and comfortable: the public library. This was the same place where Eddie and I picked out some of the new arrivals, went into the bathroom, shoved them down our pants and walked out with a few books that we really didn't need, but figured they would look good next to the other books that we had stolen and were now part of Ed's growing collection. Since my mom was always digging through my room hoping to find another smut novel hidden somewhere and Ed's mother was a single working mom and he had a maid who didn't give a shit what he had in his room, his place was the safest. Anyway, I hung out at the library reading some magazines until they announced that they would be closing in 10 minutes. The fear hit me then since I hadn't figured on them closing and now I had to make a decision on where to travel to next. After much pondering, I figured the school was as good a place as any. So, off I went and as luck would have it, wrestling practice was still being held so I had a good place to hang out and think about my next move. I had finally decided that I would leave the gym and find somewhere in the school to sleep and to make sure that I woke up in plenty of time to leave the school so it looked like I had come from home to school instead of looking like a homeless waif, which I was hoping upon hope to become but didn't want the other students to know since I would probably become the subject of ridicule and scorn. Happy with my awesome plan, I waited for the right time to leave but my well laid plan was dashed when I saw my pops walk into the gym. He saw me and came over and asked if I was ready to come home. I broke down like a little pussy told him I was so he loaded my bike into the back of the car and took me home. I don't know what I had done to make me want to leave, but I wasn't punished. Mom had actually kept my dinner warm and they left me alone while I ate and when I was getting ready for bed. As a matter of fact, nothing was ever mentioned about my "running away". I don't know why, maybe there was a lesson about something I was supposed to learn and it's really sad I can't remember what that lesson was. ..........so running away wasn't an option. I thought and though some more and decided that my best vengeance would come in the form of a little monkey. I set my alarm to wake me up early the next morning and started laughing. I laughed and laughed as visions of little monkeys ran through my mind and then I felt a strange feeling coursing through my body and soon found that I had developed my first ever erection. I stopped laughing and thinking about monkeys because it made me feel unclean and cheap for some reason and eventually I drifted off to sleep. COMING NEXT: Monkey vengeance! |